Why continued unemployment is in the government’s interest
Scapegoating benefit claimants allows the government to deflect attention from its own economic failures, and to make more ideologically motivated cuts
Scapegoating benefit claimants allows the government to deflect attention from its own economic failures, and to make more ideologically motivated cuts
The level of youth employment in the UK is comparable to the Eurozone
There are 400,000 more people on benefits than the DWP predicted in 2011
There has been a steady trend since the election that the relative position of young people has worsened in comparison with other groups.
What the government is proposing goes against everything we know about cutting re-offending
More than two thirds of people on the government’s controversial Work Programme are still without a job after two years on the scheme, according to new figures.
The latest batch of Work Programme data were released today. New quarter; similar results: a programme doing acceptably for some, but for others not.
We have three questions that we believe IDS ought to be asked by the committee.
Disabled and jobless people were referred to as “lying, thieving, bastards” by a major Work Programme contractor, the BBC’s Panorama revealed last night.
Even after the very public failings of the government’s Work Programme, Boris Johnson is pushing forward with his own mandatory work experience scheme.